March 16, 2008

To celebrate Israel's anniversary and 60 years of ethnic cleansing, the UK's Jewish Chronicle is running a haiku competition. Haiku's consist of three lines, 17 syllables and the format 5, 7, 5. I'm not sure if all lines have to rhyme but the ones I've thought up all tend to rhyme the last syllable or so of each line.

Many thanks to Deborah Fink for bringing the competition to the attention of the Just Peace list.

So here are my offerings which I won't be sending to the JC though I might send them to the JPUK list. I'll walk the dogs and think about it.

Am Yisra-el Chai! Bless'd by spirit in the skyToo bad, Arabs die!

Chosen people rule We ethnic cleansers are coolDemocrats, we fool

A home for the Jews lachrymose hist'ry, our ruseOur friends we confuse

Jewish state, hurrah! won by war and hasbaraBut natives, we bar

Israel's day, great do! JNF meets Lizzie TwoHacks at JC coo

JC's Israel rap! hasbara gets royal caplet's write some more pap

Israel's 60 years hasbara fills people's earsignore Arab tears

Israel's 60 years routed little Arab dearsand we allow queers

Israel cannot fail emotional blackmail andWIZO jumble sale

Hashem not Allah Neutralise King AbdullahShit! it's Hizbullah

"Democratic" isle Amid dictatorships vileCorpses in a pile

A home for the Jews 60 years it's in the newsstifling rival views

And here are some from a friend, who's a little deeper than me:

Six million lives the price they paid for a homewho's counting our dead

They arrived in hordes the wandering Jew, no moreshowed Arabs the door